Les Jones

East Tennessee > Here in Knox Vegas

The Knoxville News-Sentinel looks at Tennessee Bloggers. I had no idea that South Knox Bubba's identity was unknown (not that I know who he is).

Our house wasn't affected by the tornadoes last week. We didn't so much as lose power or even have a tree limb blown down. One advantage of living on a ridge, I guess. Jim and Wendy weren't so lucky. They live off of Old Knoxville Highway (nee Maryville Pike) and trees knocked down their power lines. The good news is that KUB had their power back by Saturday afternoon.

Melissa and I were at work when the bad weather hit. At my office we lost power at work around 5:00. With no power, the phone switch went dead and we lost the land lines. Melissa and I kept in touch by cell phone. At work, we plugged my radio into Teddy's UPS and tuned to WIVK to get updates on the tornado's progress. Eventually we had to shut down our desktops and servers before the batteries in the uninterruptable power supplies gave out. Everyone got home safe, and there were no fatalities anywhere in Knoxville.

Here's a little something to celebrate our good fortune!

How to Make a Southern Hurricane

1 ¹/₂ oz. Southern Comfort Splash of Grenadine Lemon lime soda Posted by lesjones